TextView marquee WITHOUT android:layout_width="match_parent"

Question

I am making a UI which will look like this

My goal is to add marquee scroll effect in highlighted text views, The parent container for the both text view is Constraint layout, Hence I am using android:layout_width="0dp" so that my view expands to its constraints that is 50-50 of the total space.

I did some research and found that I need android:layout_width="match_parent" in order to achieve marque.

My current code for marquee:

<TextView
                android:ellipsize="marquee"
                android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
                android:focusable="true"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
                android:freezesText="true"
                android:scrollHorizontally="true"
                android:gravity="start"
                android:id="@+id/row_load_list_toAddress"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
                android:text="End Location"
                android:textColor="@color/black"
                android:textSize="20sp"
                app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/imageView5"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/textView13" />

Anyone please put a light on what I might be doing wrong here and what is the solution?

Answer 1

Inorder for the marquee to work you must set setSelected property to true in your Activity related to that layout

TextView txt = findViewById(R.id.row_load_list_toAddress);
txt.setSelected(true);

Hope this will fix your problem.